Do you have any cds in your collection that you think are exceptional? Of course you have I will start here with a couple of mine:

Shostakovich (Violin Concerto No.1)/Prokofiev (Violin Concerto No.2) - Repin/Nagano (Erato)
Bartok (Complete String Quartets) - Vegh String Quartet (Naive)
Bartok (Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta) - Reiner (RCA, Living Stereo)
Brahms (Symphony No.4) - C. Kleiber (DG)
Beethoven (Symphonies Nos. 5&7) - C. Kleiber (DG)
Beethoven (Late String Quartets) - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV)
Shostakovich (Symphony No.8) - Previn (EMI)
Vaughan Williams (Symphony No.4) - Bernstein (Sony)
Ravel (Daphnis et Chloe) - Monteaux (DECCA)
Schubert (Arpeggione Sonata) - Rostropovich/Britten (DECCA)
Walton (Cello Concerto) - Piatigorsky/Munch (RCA)
Bruckner (Symphony No.9) - Giulini (DG)
Sibelius (Violin Concerto) - Heifetz/Hendl (RCA)
Mahler (Symphony No.3) - Horenstein (Unicorn)

muxamed,

There are already many of these threads.

I invite you to visit this thread, which was meant to be a sort of reference thread for "exceptional recordings".

[Edit: Alas, I see that you have already posted in it. Oh well... if we must have two threads, I don't mind too much... hopefully! It's just sort of distracting to see the same topic pop up time after time - even if the search function here is really quite good...]

Thanks Air. I already participated in that thread once. I guess it is time for me to make a new contribution. But isn't that thread placed in a wrong section of this board?

Good call. I appreciate your cooperation, as it isn't always easy to be driven off your own thread.

I think one of the moderators can take care of this...

Got these two.

And if you think these two are indispensible, Repin also teams up with Gergiev to perform the Myaskovsky & Tchaikovsky violin concertos.




Utterly indispensible. From a guy who listens to mostly string quartets

Following the Bartok string quartet by the Végh Quartet; their version of the Kodaly & Haydn Quartets should be discovered.

I agree. As well as their Beethoven cycle.

For me, Prokofiev and Shostakovich Violin Concertos no 1 / Rostropovich, Vengerov